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[Hotwinds]

Just found this on YouTube and it takes place over 16 parts.
This was filmed during production to document it.
Wow!
There are a few bits I recognize on the current DVD but this is the whole effing thing and why it has not been available yet as an extra for the current DVD I dont know.
It is like going back in time so that is a good thing.
Hope they include a more pristine version of this for the 50th anniversay Blu-Ray edition if such a thing will happen.
Enjoy.

Thanks Jamesshots007 for posting this to YouTube.

[glidrose]

http://debrief.comma...-me-documentary

http://debrief.comma...me-documentary/

[Satorious]

Remember when this being show on Open University (probably early 80's?), I was rather young and didn't really appreciate the depth it went into at the time. I do now, so many thanks for re-posting it...

[Craig Arthur]

I've waited 31 years to see this again. Many thanks for posting the link.

[Marketto007]

Great stuff. I'll risk and say this is THE BEST Bond documentary.

xxx

[Simon]

There is a chap selling these on DVD somewhere - Bond Media or some such.

[Solex Agitator]

Here is hoping this "lost" gem turns up on the forthcoming Blu Ray!

[jaguar007]

I think this documentary was on the first DVD release of TSWLM, but never included on any subsequent releases (SE, UE).

[DLibrasnow]

Remember when this being show on Open University (probably early 80's?), I was rather young and didn't really appreciate the depth it went into at the time. I do now, so many thanks for re-posting it...

Me also. It was originally shown in the late 1970s because I remember my grandfather watching it. I too thought it was rather boring and slow but then I was only 7 or 8 years old and was not yet a James Bond fan. It was shown over a span of eight weeks.

[lazenbyland]

Well done on finding this.

I remember it from the 1970's. It was for the Open University course in mass media.

With no video recorders in those days, you had to get up really early to watch it (like 5:30 am). It was never highlighted in the TV press as a TV event. The Open University programmes were just listed in very small print before the main programmes started (which was usually the Test Card!). It was called "James Bond 1", "James Bond 2" etc.

[sthgilyadgnivileht]

I think this documentary was on the first DVD release of TSWLM, but never included on any subsequent releases (SE, UE).

It was only a very short section of it though (the part where Harold Wilson visits the Liparus set), and was available on the THX version of TSWLM.

[Mark_Hazard]

Remember this in the 70s and as Lazenbyland mentions - no VCR. I got around that by recording the sound on audio tapes, probably still got them somewhere. I also seem to recall that it was repeated some years later, because I'm sure I did video tape it, but that may just be my lousy (and imaginative) memory.

[scaramunga]

Here is hoping this "lost" gem turns up on the forthcoming Blu Ray!

Agreed! This documentary needs to be included on The Spy Who Loved Me blu ray!!!